Mens World

Tourists have made it a habit of portraying Iran as an unbelievable miracle in the forbidding Middle Eastern desert — an ironic development for a country that has held a central position in the geography,

In the past 12 years, I’ve travelled to 53 countries; in the last two years, 13. When I stand in line at immigration, officers frequently raise their eyebrows and make statements such as, “Your passports

“The government doesn’t consider paragliding a sport,” says Manoj Roy, president, Paragliding Association of India (PAI). Things are changing, though, with the PAI and the Billing Paragliding Association (BPA) having hosted the 2015 Paragliding World

I doubt if this is going to be anything like the Himalayan Odyssey. It’s just the first and the last day of the tour that may take a toll on us, due to the heat, otherwise the itinerary looks pretty rider friendly.

Around two hours drive from the Dharamshala airport, off the highway leading to Mandi and nestled in the Kangra valley, is a small Himalayan village that is trying to make its presence felt on the Himachal tourism map, thanks to Frank Schlichtmann, a German Indophile who

“People used to be travellers… Now they’re tourists,” writes Mark Adams in Turn Right at Machu Picchu, quoting his guide John Lievers on his trek along the Inca trails. The book is, in turn, my

Go on a cruise This is the perfect way to soak in the city’s sights, as well as its seafaring past. Cruises start from the colourful Nyhavn (New Harbour) lined by picture-postcard, multicoloured houses. You

An upcoming guided motorcycle tour by an Indian travel start-up – Embarq Motoring Experienceswill take its participants through the vastly unexplored country of Kyrgyzstan. For those unable to place the former Soviet republic on the

Eight years ago, Tata Motors was a very different company. It had just acquired Jaguar Land Rover in the hope that it would build better cars itself, someday. At the same time, it had another